Below, Robert Kagen, says (to Carole Cadwalladr) something that confirms what many of us have been saying:
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@ChrisMayLA6 @GhostOnTheHalfShell
The length of patents and copyrights certainly need to be shortened. The ability to obtain patents for only nominal improvements, if any, to existing patented products should be reduced or eliminated.
To get back to your point here: absolutely.
The original term is 17 years at least in the US has been distorted all out of proportion. Copyright two has been distorted all out of proportion.
In particular, I think software patterns should not be as long as 17 years.
But a chief impediment to property rights and to the kind of reverse engine engineering/Tinkering that is prevented by trade law now is an impediment to technological advancement
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Below, Robert Kagen, says (to Carole Cadwalladr) something that confirms what many of us have been saying:
'it's just a faulty analysis to think that if you can flatter Trump enough & call him daddy, that means he'll leave you alone. As we see, he's not leaving anybody alone. It's really just – in fact, with him, it's an invitation to come back & demand something else & push you around. So you can't buy anything in that way'!
Keir needs to listen!
@ChrisMayLA6 Authoritarians are actually provoked into attacking, when you ”try to give them what they want”
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Below, Robert Kagen, says (to Carole Cadwalladr) something that confirms what many of us have been saying:
'it's just a faulty analysis to think that if you can flatter Trump enough & call him daddy, that means he'll leave you alone. As we see, he's not leaving anybody alone. It's really just – in fact, with him, it's an invitation to come back & demand something else & push you around. So you can't buy anything in that way'!
Keir needs to listen!
@ChrisMayLA6 I'd love to watch a panel of historians talk through this. Especially, if this one in Wisconsin is invited. Bias seems to have no bounds.
https://cmthiede.vivaldi.net/2025/12/21/popular-programming/
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Below, Robert Kagen, says (to Carole Cadwalladr) something that confirms what many of us have been saying:
'it's just a faulty analysis to think that if you can flatter Trump enough & call him daddy, that means he'll leave you alone. As we see, he's not leaving anybody alone. It's really just – in fact, with him, it's an invitation to come back & demand something else & push you around. So you can't buy anything in that way'!
Keir needs to listen!
@ChrisMayLA6
Can someone please inform Mark Rutte (former #VVD now #NATO boss) of this insight? He's got his head so far up Frump's ass that it's starting to make me feel sick... -
I've often thought that the abolition of intellectual property laws which would have little negative impact on the general population would make a lot of very rich people very annoyed.
@ChrisMayLA6
Have you read the work of @pluralistic on this? We may have a prefect opportunity to abolish the EU implementation of the #DCMA We could make it legal again to circumvent DRM. That would severely annoy some rich fucks and make the (digital) world a safer place. Win win!
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Below, Robert Kagen, says (to Carole Cadwalladr) something that confirms what many of us have been saying:
'it's just a faulty analysis to think that if you can flatter Trump enough & call him daddy, that means he'll leave you alone. As we see, he's not leaving anybody alone. It's really just – in fact, with him, it's an invitation to come back & demand something else & push you around. So you can't buy anything in that way'!
Keir needs to listen!
@ChrisMayLA6 "one of the things which most alarms me, because it's my special area of interest – is that the British government has undertaken massive deals with US tech companies. This came out of that state visit. It includes – two weeks ago, I think it was – Britain signing a £240m deal to put Palantir in the middle of our armed forces, our Ministry of Defence. It just seems like total madness to have a Trump ally literally in our defence infrastructure."
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@ChrisMayLA6 "one of the things which most alarms me, because it's my special area of interest – is that the British government has undertaken massive deals with US tech companies. This came out of that state visit. It includes – two weeks ago, I think it was – Britain signing a £240m deal to put Palantir in the middle of our armed forces, our Ministry of Defence. It just seems like total madness to have a Trump ally literally in our defence infrastructure."
1/2@ChrisMayLA6 isn't there also a deal for Open AI and the tech bros vacuuming up all health care data and public administration in general?
To me that's so astonishing and my nightmare scenario for my own country (Sweden). It feels like the worst of all possible ways to take on this technological development. 2/2
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@ChrisMayLA6
Have you read the work of @pluralistic on this? We may have a prefect opportunity to abolish the EU implementation of the #DCMA We could make it legal again to circumvent DRM. That would severely annoy some rich fucks and make the (digital) world a safer place. Win win!
@GhostOnTheHalfShell@jarjan @pluralistic @GhostOnTheHalfShell
Yes, I am familiar with the argument & completely agree with abandoning DRM... I've always been suspicious of it
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@ChrisMayLA6 isn't there also a deal for Open AI and the tech bros vacuuming up all health care data and public administration in general?
To me that's so astonishing and my nightmare scenario for my own country (Sweden). It feels like the worst of all possible ways to take on this technological development. 2/2
Agreed; there seems to either be collusion or myopia at play; the open source alternative has been ready for (further) development for years, but few Govt.s seem to know about it or be interested in developing this alternative approach - sadly!
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Agreed; there seems to either be collusion or myopia at play; the open source alternative has been ready for (further) development for years, but few Govt.s seem to know about it or be interested in developing this alternative approach - sadly!
@ChrisMayLA6 its a mix of
– lack of knowledge/understanding in the political class
– anxiety, rush to be "in" on the new stuff
– skillfull lobbying, massive resources from techbros et Ali
– caving to pressure from US, hoping to gain favour with USBut its the worst of all possible ways to take on the new tech landscape
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Below, Robert Kagen, says (to Carole Cadwalladr) something that confirms what many of us have been saying:
'it's just a faulty analysis to think that if you can flatter Trump enough & call him daddy, that means he'll leave you alone. As we see, he's not leaving anybody alone. It's really just – in fact, with him, it's an invitation to come back & demand something else & push you around. So you can't buy anything in that way'!
Keir needs to listen!
@ChrisMayLA6
Yes, we need to listen:"So for Europeans, they need to stop waiting for the America that they know to come back, because it isn't.
I think it's just vitally important that Europe now, to the best of its ability, comes together and really undertakes what would be a dramatic strategic revolution. Europe needs to become self-sufficient in both military and economic terms. It needs to start understanding that it is faced by aggressive powers on both flanks."
